Method of attaching heels



(No Model.)

F. P. RAYMOND, 2d. METHOD OF ATTAOHINGHEELS.

No. 475,001. Patented May 17, 1892.

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FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS. I

METHOD OF ATTACHING HEELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 475,001, dated May 17,1892.

Application filed July is, 1889.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2d, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Methodof Attaching Heels to the Soles of Boots or Shoes, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and eX- act description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, inexplaining its nature.

The invention relates to the herein described method of loadingheel-blanks with nails or attaching heels to the soles of boots orshoes, which includes the driving of the ends of a gang or group ofwires into the heel-blank, if the object be to load the heel, or intoand through the heel-blank into the soles of a boot or shoe, if theobject be to attach the heel-blank to'the boot or shoe, and

thus driven into the heel-blank at or above the tread end of the heel.This method of loading a heel-blank with attaching-nails or of attachinga heel-blank to the soles of a boot or shoe is very simple and effectiveand is easily practiced and reduces the expense of loading and attachingheel-blanks.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represets a perforated heel-blank;Fig. 2, one that is not perforated; Fig. 3, the relation which the endsof the wire bear to the unperforated heeleblank before they are driventherein. Fig. 4 represents the position which they bear to theheel-blank after they are driven. Fig. 5 illustrates the relation whichthey bear to a perforated heel-blank after driving. Fig. 6 illustratesthe introduction of the wires to the heel-blank through the holes of awire-support. Fig. 7 is a detail view, in section, representing theattached heel-blank. Fig. 8 is a view in detail representing the wiresas severed sufficiently above the top of the heelblank to receive a toplift. Fig. 9 is a detail view representing the wires driven into adetached heel-blank. Fig. 10 represents the severing or cutting of thegroup of wires after they have been driven into the heel-blank to severthe driven portions from the remainder of the lengths.

In practicing the invention the heel-blank may or may not first beperforated or provided Serial No. 317.398. (in model.)

with holes into which the ends of the wires are inserted or driven. Forhigh heels and for very hard heels it will be desirable to perforate orprick the heels to furnish holes for the ends of the wires before theyare inserted. For ordinary work, however, the previous perforations orpricking of the heel-blank will not be necessary.

In the drawings, Ct represents aheel-blank which has been previouslyprepared w th holes forthe reception of the endsof the wires, and a isaheel-blank that has not been previously perforated.

In practicing the process the wires 04 which are of any desired gage andwhich may or may not have their ends pointed, are arranged as a gang orgroup, so that their ends a are of the same line or of the same contourin section as the edge of the upper surface ofthe heelblank, but ofcourse upon a line within the line of the heel, and the wires thusarranged and suitably held are then either simultaneously orsuccessively moved toward the heelblank and their ends driven into theheelblank any desired extent. I have represented them as arranged to bedriven simultaneously, the wires being held for this purpose between theclamps a a a, to which pressure or movement may be applied in anydesired way, and I have represented the ends of the wires as driven intothe heel-blank and soles of a boot or shoe in Fig. 4 and into theheelblank alone in Fig. 5. I prefer that the wires be held orsupportedby being passed through appropriate holes in a templet or holdingplate,as represented in Fig. 6, where a represents such a plate, the platehaving a sepa rate guiding or holding hole a for each wire and-in thiscase the wire clamps preferably are arranged above the templet. In someinstances,however,thetempletmaybedispensed with, the clamps alone beingused, the wiresbein g driven by them directlyinto the heel-blank. As arule, it is desirable to compress the heelblank during some portion ofthe driving of the wires. This may be done by moving the templetforcibly down upon the heel-support a. before the wires are driven, orthe wires may first be driven and then the templet moved forciblyagainst the heel-blank, or in case of a loaded heel-blank the pressuremay be applied upon the subsequent driving of IOC the attaching nails orwires. The driving of the wires leaves the ends of-the wires extendingfrom the heel-blank, and the sections or ends of the wires which havebeen driven into the heel-blank are then severed from the undrivensections of the wires by causing the templet and clamp, or either, to bemoved relatively to 'the heel-blank sufiiciently to permit a .cuttingimplementto be moved between the heel-blank and the surface of the ternplet or clamp opposite it, and the ends may then be severed either on aline with the tread or surface of the heel-blank or at any distanceabove the tread or surface of the heel-blank desired. In Fig. 7 I haverepresented the wires out upon the line with the tread of the heel-blankand in Fig. 8 upon a line above the tread-surface, sufficient of thelength of the severed wires or ends being left to afford means for theattachment of a top lift.by blind nailing, and in Fig. 9 I haverepreseted the Wires out still farther from the tread-surface or at adistance sufficient to permit the subsequent further driving of theseveredends of the'wire in the attachment of the hee1blank. The

cutting of the Wires at this distance from the tread is practiced whenthe process is used in making detached loaded heel-blanks. The ends ofthe WllS may be thus severed or cut from the main lengths in anysuitable way after their ends have thus been inserted or driven into theheel,and I have shown in 10 this cutting as accomplished or carried intoeffect by means of a saw adapted to be moved across the space betweenthe tread-surface and the under surface of the templet, the saw actingto sever the various Wires.

As above stated, the ends of the wires may be pointed before they aredriven.

I would say thatI do not confine the method to the drivingofattaching-nails into the heels, as it may be used for the'purpose ofdriving ornamental nails, wearing-nails, or slugs.

' Having thus fully described myinvention, I claim and. desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States The art or method of loading andsecuring a shoe-heel, substantially as set forth, which consists inassembling orgrouping several continuous strands 'of ire in the'forin"'desired, firmly holding said strands in such position and simultaneously forcing the ends of said wire through the heeL'andfinally'se'vering said wires.

FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D.

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J. M. DOLAN, J. T. BALL.

